Personally, I don't give a crap if I can hear what Bane is saying in The Dark Knight Rises prologue now playing in IMAX theaters. When people blew up over it last month I just didn't care, and neither did anybody else at first. The initial was response was glazed over eyes and puddles of drool at the intense widescreen action Christopher Nolan was promising us, and then once that faded people started to remember, "Oh yeah, what the frig was Bane talking about?"
To be honest, it did sound a little terrible. Just Bane's parts in particular, and speaking through that Lecter mask wasn't making it any better. It was like he was in a wind tunnel talking through a half empty styrofoam cup, but it didn't bother me because I just I just figured his garbled speech would play into the story or something. Well, there was an uproar about it, and Nolan made it clear he wouldn't be making any substantial changes to the audio. Turns out that might not have been totally true, at least according to a source speaking to Collider. They say that Bane is now 40%-50% clearer thanks to a reduction in ambient noise...
“A friend of mine who is an IMAX projectionist told me they received a new soundtrack for the Dark Knight Rises prologue. He said it’s now a combo soundtrack with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but the cool thing about this is that they’ve cleaned up the dialogue. They’ve gone in and lowered the background noise of the plane and other things, thus making Bane’s dialogue clearer and more understandable. He asked some people after they left the movie if they could understand Bane and they all said they had no issue understanding him, and were excited for the movie."
I haven't seen the changes yet, so I can't speak to it personally. So take this as a rumor for now, and really, aren't you more concerned that Nolan get it right for the movie and not this silly prologue? We'll see if there's a notable difference when The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20th.
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